Sentences with phrase «turned negroes»
Before Lincoln's emancipation act many generals had simply turned Negroes over to the Army chaplain to take care of them.
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It was evident that a new page had been turned in American history, and Negroes would no longer be satisfied simply to wait another hundred years, to say nothing of fifty years or even of ten years.
From the first he urged the emancipation and enlistment of the Southern negroes, — a policy which was ultimately adopted with successful results; and when in 1864, at the darkest hour of the struggle, there was danger of a fatal compromise, he actively promoted that great mass meeting in the hall of the Cooper Union which marked the turning - point of the struggle, carried the State of New York for Lincoln, and secured the triumph of the Union.